Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Notes Taken While Starting to Write My Next RPG Book

Room When she is there, Room when she is not there.

Johannes Vermeer

100 Octopuses

Nimue

“A terrible worm in an iron cocoon,”

Oceanids

Sexual cannibalism is rare in the animal kingdom. Although cannibalism is not uncommon in cephalopods, here we report the first documented case of sexual cannibalism. A large female Octopus cyanea was observed continuously for 2.5 days in Palau, Micronesia, when she was out of her den. On the second day, a small male followed and mated her 13 times during 3.5 h while she continued to forage over 70 m distance. After the 12th mating, she aggressively chased a different small octopus that barely escaped by jetting, inking and swimming upwards. Shortly thereafter, the original small male mated her a 13th time, but subsequently she attacked and suffocated him and spent 2 days cannibalizing him in her den. This sort of intraspecific aggression helps to explain several reports of octopuses mating out in the open, a behaviour that may serve to allow the smaller mate to escape cannibalism.

Kang the Conqueror

Christianity from Judaism from Canaanism

Niobids

Nimue, Viviane, Vivien, Elaine, Ninianne, Nivian, Nyneve, or Evienne

T.H. White's 1958 Arthurian retelling, The Once and Future King, in which "Merlyn", as White calls him, has the curious affliction of living backwards in time to everyone else. This affliction also appears in Dan Simmons' Hyperion as the "Merlin sickness." A related novel is The Book of Merlyn.

Metacomet

Abbas II of Persia

Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād

Nympharium

Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba

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Voltaire:

This unfortunate time for Ibrahim was unfortunate for all monarchs. The

Holy Roman Empire was unsettled by the famous Thirty Years War. Civil war

devastated France and forced the mother of Louis XIV to flee with her children

from her capital. In London, Charles I was condemned to death by his own

subjects. Philip IV, king of Spain, having lost almost all his possessions in Asia, also

lost Portugal.

Voltaire went on to consider the careers of Cromwell in England, Li Zicheng in

China, Aurangzeb in India, and others who had seized power by force, concluding

that the mid-­seventeenth century had been ‘a period of usurpations almost from one

Nice to see some Welsh in there Zak. I will tell you one thing about Llyn y Fan Fach: it is fucking impossible to find. I lived about ten miles from the place and never got there. I only know people who claim to have found it by accident.